Arts and Culture: Accessible Practices
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Arts Midwest: Accessibility Center resources designed to help arts and cultural organizations in making programming, services, and communications more accessible. Find information on federal and state laws below, and learn more about how your organization can comply with these requirements. Information on accessibility tools and resources, as well as a list of organizations committed to advancing accessibility work.
Association of Science-Technology Centers: Accessible Practices Resource Center ASTC, via their Accessible Practices Resource Center seeks to support museums in their ongoing efforts to open their doors to all people, and specifically to people with disabilities and their families and friends.
KIT (Kids Included Together) - Why It Matters: Diversity and Disability inclusion in the Arts September 13, 2022, How to create a more inclusive art community. whether you’re an accessibility practitioner, theater or art student, or just part of a school or community theater looking to be more inclusive of those with disabilities, this blog will introduce you to the topic of disability inclusion in the arts and link out to useful KIT resources that can be helpful for anyone working to expand access to the arts for those with disabilities.
National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC is dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, media, and literary-arts communities. Its resource directories, annotated bibliographies, related links and conferences serve to advance artists with disabilities and accessibility to the arts. The NADC is a project of the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA), Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities (formerly University Affiliated Program).
National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to persons with disabilities, minority -language users, and people with low literacy skills. Their site lists latest projects and publications, as well as links to other accessibility information.
Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design is a document created by Smithsonian Accessibility Program that offers insight into their innovative accessibility practices. They strive to "invent" accessible solutions where there are none. This document will provide an overview of both the accessibility guidelines and design tools.
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